January 11, 2007

I love dance although I am pretty much useless as a dancer and always have been. The link below will take you to a slide show based on my Flickr images of dance subjects. As ever if you see anything you like get in touch for details of print prices.

The Adam Smith Institute Blog has always had a poor reputation for the way it handles critical comments, but now they have sunk to new depths, as Tim Lambert and Jim at Our Word is Our Weapon describe.

I have had comments of my own deleted in the past, I was banned from commenting for a while (and probably will be again after this!) but I have never come across anyone being prevented from viewing - I didn't even know it was technically possible.

They clearly couldn't cope with the criticisms and after first deleting the entire comment stream, they have now rewritten history and deleted the post itself - except of course they forgot about the Google Cache!

January 10, 2007

2300 29th Dec - 20 mile blue light run with mother birthing with placenta previa. 0630 30th Dec - 45 mins CPR on a middle-aged man whose wife had just got up, expecting to spend the day with him gardening. 2300 30th Dec - keep pace for three miles alongside a swollen, black, freezing river until the inshore recue volunteers could retrieve the body; 2330 - 15 mins of CPR on the body of a young woman, in the back of an ambulance full of wet clothes and stinking river water, being driven by a policeman, so that 2 of us could work on the patient. A&E can't manage miracles, even though they tried for 90mins. In amongst the above, the "usual" night shift drunks and assaultees.
0330 31 Dec - find that I'm losing the plot whilst giving my second "fatal" statement of the day. Shaking, vomiting, weeping, I take myself home. I've been off since. I'm writing this at 0512, because I cannot sleep.
Sometimes, dear readers, we DON'T cope.

The difficult but extremely important and recurrent organizational design problem of how organizations can structure incentives so that people (“agents”) who are placed in control over resources that are not their own with a contractual obligation to

January 06, 2007

As I write, the unspeakables are gathering outside my house. The legislation is irrelevant - getting your rocks off by pursuing some frightened animal across the countryside makes you as one with the vermin you claim to be controlling.